Stephen Grey
Articles by Stephen Grey
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Asia
The fog of war
- 13 August 2009
- 2 comments
In 2001, British troops marched into Afghanistan on a mission to combat al-Qaeda and topple the Taliban. Eight years and thousands of ruined lives later, they remain mired in conflict, with no sign of a way out. What are our soldiers fighting and dying for? How long will they stay?
World Affairs
Understanding the Taliban
- 24 April 2008
- 7 comments
Rethinking the war in Helmand has made the British army revise some of its basic assumptions. Working with "reconciled" Taliban commanders is part of that new strategy
Books
Show trials and errors
- 06 December 2007
The Guantanamo Files: the Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison Andy Worthington Pluto Press, 352pp, £16.99
Politics
Missing presumed tortured
- 20 November 2006
More than 7,000 prisoners have been captured in America's war on terror. Just 700 ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Between extraordinary rendition to foreign jails and disappearance into the CIA's "black sites", what happened to the rest?
Books
Our man in Baghdad
- 27 February 2006
My Year In Iraq: the struggle to build a future of hope L Paul Bremer III Simon & Schuster, 417pp, £18.99 ISBN 0743273893
Politics
Torture's tipping point
- 19 December 2005
Eighteen months after Stephen Grey first described "extraordinary rendition" in these pages, he reflects on why the world finally woke to the story and adds a warning
Politics
Iraq: our fatal blunder
- 03 October 2005
British forces in the south of Iraq have ceded power to Islamic radical militias. The police recruits they have armed and trained are now their enemies
Politics
Mint tea with the terrorists
- 11 April 2005
Under US law, it is an offence to give any "aid or counsel" to groups such as Hamas or Hezbollah. But some westerners say it's time to talk to even the most militant Islamists
Global Issues
We blundered in. Let's not betray them too
- 31 January 2005
Iraq elections - Stephen Grey argues that Britain has completely failed in Iraq and that if we keep taking over other countries, we need a revived Colonial Office to do the job properly
